Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
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The first thing I would recommend to put a stop to slavery in this country, is to leave off importing slaves. For this purpose let our assemblies unite in petitioning the king and parliament to dissolve the African committee of merchants: It is by them that the trade is chiefly carried on to America.
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Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.
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Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.
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Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.
